Public Service Indiana's Marble Hill Nuclear Power Station, at a cost of $2.5 billion, was the most expensive nuclear construction project ever abandoned.

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Who pays the bill when the cost of a nuclear power project goes wildly over budget?

Thirty years ago - the last time this question came up in Indiana - the answer was clear: The utility would swallow the cost. And it did. Public Service Indiana nearly went bankrupt in 1984 when construction costs soared to $2.5 billion at its Marble Hill Nuclear Power Station in Southern Indiana. The distressed company pulled the plug.